King of Creation Chapter 2165 - 2150: Blood River Feast

Jii Qi sacrificed ten thousand Demon Clan siege troops to gain valuable time for his main forces to establish a defensive line, avoiding a disastrous situation of being attacked from both sides.

The Demon Spirit Round Wing Formation is an exceptionally unique formation within the Demon Clan that gathers everyone’s power to form a wing-shaped Guardian Light Screen.

Once formed, its defensive capabilities are extremely powerful, and it can be both defensive and offensive.

Although Jii Qi previously ordered a desperate defense awaiting reinforcements, that was just the worst-case scenario.

He didn’t want to become a defeated commander, not only losing face but also significantly dropping his status among the generals under the Seventh Prince.

"Quite some talent as a commander!"

After the overwhelming volley of crossbow bolts, seeing Jii Qi’s forces in perfect defensive formation, Ye Zhen sneered.

Four hundred Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows, four thousand Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows, and fifty thousand Wind-Fire Crossbows shot in unison, yet they only caused over two thousand casualties, with the formation remaining intact.

"Grand Marshal, the enemy’s defense is rigorous. If another one or two rounds of covering fire have no effect, allow my unit to break through." As the commander of the Demon Spirit Soldiers, Zheng Dangshi had become more battle-hungry, but his valued command skills and insight, noticed by Ye Zhen, remained unfazed.

Ye Zhen slowly shook his head, "It’s not time for that yet. I’m unwilling to exchange your lives for theirs one-to-one!"

"Order Gu Tieqi’s unit to continue pressing and maintain pressure!"

After a moment’s thought, Ye Zhen made a decision as he watched Jii Qi’s forces steadily approach under the protection of the Demon Spirit Round Wing Formation, "Order my troops to withdraw in sequence, maintaining covering fire during the retreat. The Demon Spirit Soldiers must be ready to assault the enemy’s assault troops at any moment."

The next moment, seeing Ye Zhen’s forces begin to retreat in sequence, Jii Qi suddenly laughed, "Ye Zhen, who even terrifies Yue Dai, is just this much after all."

"Speed up the approach, disrupt the enemy’s formation, and prepare to attack!" Jii Qi was all smiles, thinking that if he could defeat Ye Zhen or win a major victory before the Seventh Prince’s reinforcements arrived, he would not only avoid blame but gain merit.

But almost as soon as Jii Qi’s voice fell, hundreds of green lights suddenly exploded within the military formation. These hundreds of green lights accurately pierced the soldiers positioned at key nodes of the Demon Spirit Round Wing Formation.

The deaths of these hundreds of soldiers on the spot didn’t matter, but it caused the Guardian Light Wings formed by the Demon Spirit Round Wing Formation to tremble violently.

It was at this moment that the dragon-formed bolts from the Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows tore through the fluctuating Light Wings of the Demon Spirit Round Wing Formation and crashed inside.

The four hundred dragons created by the Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows produced four hundred waves of blood, and then the bolts from the four thousand Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows instantly turned it into a sea of fire.

In an instant, the flesh of the five thousand soldiers in the sea of fire quickly phosphorized and turned black, their screams piercing the sky.

"From underground!"

"The attack from underground, what were the scouts underground doing? You’re all doomed!" Jii Qi stomped and roared furiously.

"Suppress with firepower!"

"Fire!"

"Catch up, I want to tear them apart!" Jii Qi adjusted the formation at the fastest speed.

However, Jii Qi underestimated Ye Zhen’s tactics.

To be precise, underestimated Ye Zhen’s shamelessness!

Jii Qi had fought so many battles but had never encountered such shameless tactics.

Ye Zhen’s army was retreating in order and in steps, but during the retreat, they maintained firepower suppression, and his forces were always trying to catch up to engage in close combat.

But every time, it wasn’t the green light from underground causing massive casualties to his troops.

Silver light would randomly ripple.

This silver light was giving him a headache.

A portion of the silver light would make his soldiers’ bodies incredibly heavy, their speed slowing suddenly by several times.

While another portion of the silver light would make his affected soldiers as light as a swallow, their speed suddenly doubled.

Initially, this second situation was considered good.

But imagine, the army was originally advancing in formation at a uniform speed, and suddenly some soldiers slowed down while others unexpectedly sped up.

The result was a chaotic formation.

Then the opponent’s crossbow bolts would accurately pour down, causing massive casualties.

This infuriated Jii Qi immensely, but he was helpless.

This was Ye Zhen’s precise control of the Geomagnetic Field, which sometimes could have extraordinary effects.

Next, Ye Zhen’s Mystical Mechanism Avatar, disguised as a human, would seize the opportunity to unleash a large-scale Nightmare Roar, taking the chance to disrupt the Demon Clan’s military formation, creating opportunities for attack.

Ye Zhen, Little Demon, and the Mystical Mechanism Avatar took turns on the battlefield, causing endless casualties in Jii Qi’s army, making Jii Qi want to vomit blood from anger.

Attempting to attack Ye Zhen’s army, they couldn’t even get close, and their long-range attacks were considerably weaker compared to the Human Clan’s crossbow barrage, causing little harm.

Of course, Jii Qi’s forces also had Dao Realm experts accompanying them.

Whenever the experts on Ye Zhen’s side moved, Jii Qi’s Dao Realm would quickly respond, using their aura to lock onto the experts on Ye Zhen’s side, preparing to snipe and restrain them among the experts, preventing them from affecting the battle situation.

Jii Qi’s tactics were good.

However, he faced Ye Zhen.

With Big Ears Nie Ting, Ye Zhen, possessing copious amounts of All Living Beings’ Will Power, and Little Demon with Creation Spiritual Power, under their cooperation, ordinary Demon Clan Dao Realm experts would almost be taken down by Ye Zhen in a split second.

They would either be slain or drained into a dried corpse by Little Demon!

In just two brief skirmishes, three of the Dao Realm under his command had been eliminated.

Under Jii Qi’s command, there were only seven Dao Realm experts in total.

This made Jii Qi extremely vexed, as each Dao Realm’s fall resulted in losses exceeding the death of over a hundred thousand troops!

Even more crucially, until now, Jii Qi had yet to figure out how these Dao Realms were slain by Ye Zhen in just one encounter.

Jii Qi was on the verge of madness!

Truly!

Pushed to the brink of insanity!

Even before engaging in battle, his army lost over twenty thousand soldiers, and three Dao Realms had fallen.

Counting the previous losses and the ten thousand casualties caused by his Skeleton Banner, his army had dwindled from a hundred and fifty thousand to less than ninety thousand.

This was a startlingly alarming figure.

On Ye Zhen’s side, aside from the few thousand casualties among the Cairo Fortress garrison, in the six-thousand-strong army pursuing them, the number of bodies one could see could be counted on one hand.

Jii Qi truly had a feeling of collapse.

Having led troops for so many years, he had never felt so aggrieved.

Obviously, his army possessed formidable combat power, and the enemy was right across the battlefield, yet he couldn’t hit them.

Every time they closed in, his troops would invariably be affected by the opponent’s vast Divine Power secret technique.

At this moment, Jii Qi somewhat understood Yue Dai’s feelings.

It was truly frustrating to the point of vomiting blood!

In the face of the opponent’s near-underdog strategy, he felt nearly helpless.

Reluctantly, and out of desperation, Jii Qi began to retract his defensive line once again.

In other words, Jii Qi had given up attacking, stubbornly clinging to Ye Zhen’s forces, hoping for a chance to avenge his blood feud, which now depended on the Crown Prince’s reinforcements.

As for Ye Zhen, he wasn’t in a hurry.

He gradually wore down Jii Qi’s army’s strength, like slowly slicing with a blunt knife, while preserving his own forces.

When the Seventh Crown Prince of the Demon Emperor, Congyun, arrived with reinforcements, all he saw was Ye Zhen’s brilliant Spirit Light from the wide-spread Spirit Boats.

Ye Zhen’s Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters, some of the world’s most elite scouts, spotted the Demon Emperor’s Seventh Crown Prince Congyun’s reinforcements fifteen minutes ahead.

Upon discovering the approaching reinforcements, Ye Zhen decisively withdrew thoroughly.

The army immediately boarded Commander Level Spirit Boats, rapidly retreating.

As for breaking free from Jii Qi’s clutches, it was much simpler.

For Jii Qi’s troops, who had lost the courage to attack, several large-scale illusions sufficed to buy Ye Zhen enough time to retreat.

It must be said, Achou, with the Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit, using the Ancient Mirage Dragon’s Mirage Energy to set up large-scale illusions on this battlefield, could truly drive a Military Commander-in-Chief mad!

So realistic, so lifelike!

As for Gu Tieqi’s unit, they had already received orders earlier to return with a large force to the Cairo Fortress.

So, when the Seventh Crown Prince of the Demon Emperor, Congyun, arrived with reinforcements and saw Jii Qi’s troops strewn with tens of thousands of corpses scattered over a thousand-mile stretch.

The Seventh Crown Prince, Congyun, in a fit of rage, slapped Jii Qi, shattering half of his cheek.

Jii Qi, being the Right Commander of the Crown Prince Guard, was both a commander and a house slave.

Thus, the Seventh Crown Prince, Congyun, slapping him was to be expected.

Yet, that slap revealed the furious anger of the Seventh Crown Prince, Congyun!

The usually composed Seventh Crown Prince, Congyun, was genuinely furious!

"Want to run? Dream on!"

"Once I’ve caught your tail, don’t think about running away!"

"Pursue them, full speed ahead!"

"Tell those Demon Masters to muster all their strength, do everything to increase the army’s speed! If you fail to catch Ye Zhen, I’ll have all their heads chopped off!"

The roar of the Seventh Crown Prince, Congyun, echoed in the air, as the newly arrived elite reinforcements pursued toward the direction Ye Zhen’s army had retreated to, like black lightning.

"Ye Zhen, this time, I will take your head and make it a chamber pot, to wash away my disgrace!" Riding his Winged Beast, the Seventh Crown Prince, Congyun, fixed his single eye on the distance with a fierce determination!

At the same moment, Ye Zhen also received the latest intelligence.

The Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters could not monitor the movements of the Seventh Crown Prince, Congyun’s army, but the few Heavenly Patrol Divine Generals possessed that capability.

"They’re catching up?"

Upon receiving the news, Ye Zhen smiled instead of showing tension, "Excellent! It seems that our Lord Congyun will be the first to enjoy this grand feast!"

"Come, pass the order, have the army change direction towards the Blood River!"

Almost simultaneously, a Talisman Light flew from Ye Zhen’s hand, traversing the sky in an instant, making a sudden turn upon reaching the Blood River’s sky, then plunging into the riverbed of the Blood River!